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Princess Pumpkins

Posted by Liz McCoy Sunday, October 6, 2013 View Comments

Fall is my favorite time to decorate the house, and my favorite time to be outside. This year I've been a little behind on my decorating efforts especially on the front porch. I got out some of my styrofoam pumpkins from the attic and found that some of them have chipping paint.

Yeah those are pretty embarrassing. So I thought about how I could upcycle them and make them presentable again. The little one I let my 2 year old daughter do and I took on the bigger one.

First things first we sanded all the chipping areas then we primed them with some left over primer I had in the garage.

Looking better already. The tall pumpkin is my son's but his will not be princess and it isn't finished just yet so I'll share that one later. I have a bunch of acrylic paints in our craft stash that I let the kids use to paint their pumpkins however they wanted. My daughter and I went mostly pink!

I used a few printer labels I had on hand to make a pattern. I had wanted to spray paint it gold because I love the pink and gold combination, but when examining my spray paint stash in the garage I only had a shiny silver finish available so I went with that.

After a quick spray painting I had the fun task of pulling all the stickers off. While my pumpkin's final coat dried my daughter and I hot glued gems all over her little pumpkin. In the end we turned out two super cute princess pumkins for our fall decorations.

Once my son' is done with his I'll spray them all with a clear varish to set everything and hopefully protect it for the next season. My daughter absolutely loves her jeweled pumpkin!! She wants to carry it around with her all the time.

I've still got a few chippy pumpkins to deal with any suggestions on the next transformation???

crafts, diy, halloween

Decorating a Small Front Porch–Autumn

Posted by Liz McCoy Friday, October 19, 2012 View Comments

I decorated our small front porch for fall/Halloween. Our porch is pretty small so it really didn’t require much to decorate, but I went overboard anyway. I love those big front porches with swings and benches with lots of character. We obviously don’t have that. Like I said our porch is small and it is pretty dark with the brick and the door painted black.

This season we purchased the straw bales, live mums, corn husks, and two jumbo pumpkins for carving, everything else is stuff I had in storage.

fall porch decor

I haven’t done much decorating inside because my 20 month old thinks they are pumpkin toys. maybe next year one the playroom is built out and playing happens downstairs. I’ve pinned lots of craft projects for next year too.

Do you decorate your front porch?? Share your pictures I’d love to see!